HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP: EPA violation history, explained
HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,358 people through 943 service connections.
HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP's record against the rest of the country
13 total violations and 1 health-based ones put HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP at the 37th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,069 of 12,903.
How HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP compares within IL
Among the 560 IL systems in this dataset, the average is 5.0 health-based violations - HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP is from 2016-01-07 (health-based: 1998-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/27/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for HICKORY-KERTON WTR COOP - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.